User Manual

4.14. Analog Effects
MatrixBrute features Analog Effects with 5 different modes on the output.
The Analog Effects are all based on classic Bucket Brigade Devices (BBD’s). The technical
differences between them are a function of the delay times and how or whether they're
modulated. Note that all the knobs can be modulation destinations in the Matrix.
Mode cycles through the five effects, which are tuned with the five knobs at the top of the
Analog Effects section:
• Stereo Delay has two taps (meaning repetitions of the original sound), first left
then right. When the Delay Time knob (see below) is at 12 o'clock, the first one is
about 100ms and the second about 200ms. The maximum time is about half a
second.
• Mono Delay is a single tap in the center (i.e. it's equal in both left and right sides).
• Chorus is an LFO modulated delay, in the vicinity of 5 to 50ms. It's a rich,
thickening sound.
• Flange is a shorter modulated delay, somewhere around .5 to 10ms. Typically,
flangers have an "airplane" sound, and unlike choruses the effect often moves in
and out.
• Reverb is a unique analog space effect, produced by recirculating the delays with
varying delay times.
The five effect-modifying parameters:
• Delay Time has different ranges in different Modes. Longer delay times are
achieved with clockwise turns.
• Regeneration is a level control for the amount of the signal that gets fed back into
the processor. Things can get wild - in both good and bad ways - if you turn it up.
• Tone/Rate This control doubles as a tone or lowpass filter control for the delays,
and as a rate control in the Chorus and Flanger modes.
• Width/Depth specifies the amount of stereo field in the stereo delay/reverb, and
the modulation depth of the LFO in the chorus and flanger.
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